Heather Horton
@Heather_Horton
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Contemporary Canadian 🇨🇦 artist with paintings in numerous collections worldwide. Heartmate of @joss .
L.A. and London
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The progression of "Danielle, Rising", oil on panel, 48"x48"...
http://t.co/SjejWvSMY2
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Over 200 hours later, “The Chrysalis” is finally finished! Oil on panel, 60”x40”, private collection.
This is one of my favourite paintings I have completed in the last couple of years. ♥️ The making of art cannot be rushed :-)
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“I don’t want realism, I want magic!”~Tennessee Williams
“The Albatross”, oil on panel, 10”x30”, private collection.
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I love that charge in the air right before a thunderstorm.
The air itself feels more viscous, heavier, and there’s almost a hushed quiet all around. Flora and fauna seem to hold their breaths for a moment.
And usually that means wonderful clouds to paint, like on this day in
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As the decade draws to a close here’s a look back at a childhood drawing done at 12 yrs old & a repainting of the same subject 25 years later.
Rome wasn’t built in a day. Craft takes time. Keep working & answering the call to wonder..”Royal Doultons”, coll of the artist.
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Hello
#PortfolioDay
,
I’m Heather.
I push paint around on canvases.
Portraits and figurative subjects are my jam. Water & light too.
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My portrait of Marlowe is now complete next to Seamus’! So glad
@AnneWheaton
and
@wilw
received it safely. So glad you like it!
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Happy Birthday to my fellow artist, collector and friend,
@johncusack
, who will always have one of my favourite paintings I’ve ever done! “Danielle, rising”, oil, 48”x48”.
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Every artist comes to their easel differently. I sit, many stand. Some paint frenetically. I am slow and deliberate. There is no right or wrong, there is only what works.
I find with painting comes quietude.
“The Side Door”, oil on canvas, private collection.
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“Be hole, be dust, be dream, be wind/Be night, be dark, be wish, be mind,/Now slip, now slide, now move unseen,/Above, beneath, betwixt, between.”
~
@neilhimself
“The Revenant”, oil on panel, 72”x48”, private collection, Toronto, Ontario.
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New
#painting
complete! "Danielle, Rising", oil on panel, 48"x48".
http://t.co/LRTc7E13au
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This was a true challenge. I had to stop seeing the way I normally see & deconstruct each tone down to its simplest and most basic elements. I had to let go of predicted outcomes. It was an epiphany.
“Laura, Curtain”, oil, 36”x24”, priv coll.
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Painting feels like you’re walking through a quagmire when you first embark on your quest. But eventually, with time, much time and many trials, it becomes muscle memory. 🩵
“Amid”, oil on canvas, 24”x36”, private collection.
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Painting allows me to embrace my humanness, process grief and become, hopefully, a better daughter, wife, painter, person.
As Carrie Fisher once said:
“Take your broken heart and turn it into art.” ♥️
“After visiting Mum 1”, oil on panel, 6”x6”, available.
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Over time I have come to realise that it’s the painting that decides when it’s complete, not the artist. 💜
“Gayle, window”, oil on panel, 48”x24”, private collection, Oregon.
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My longtime friend Peter once said “Your job as an artist is to assimilate contradictions to produce universal truths.” 💜
We take up our brushes, spin clay, weave delicate threads, push colours and swirl liquid hot glass alone, hours on end, for the joy of the doing of it, & we
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“I found myself thinking of an ocean running beneath the whole universe, like the dark sea water that laps beneath the wooden boards of an old pier. An ocean that stretches from forever to forever, & is still small enough to fit inside a bucket..”~
@neilhimself
cont’d.:
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I was saving this as a surprise for my solo show at
@abbozzogallery
, but given the state of the world I felt like sharing it now... here’s a brand new 36”x48”, oil painting, “Within these Walls”. Available now (& will still be in the show)
I’ll be on
@twitch
2day 4-5:30pm EST!
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Still one of the trickiest paintings I've ever done. Fear is a great motivator :-)
"Laura, Curtain", oil on panel,36"x24", priv coll.
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3 paintings of my beloved cat Sasha passed away last week. He was a dear friend whom I will never forget. I’m so thankful for the wonderful memories & many adventures we went on together. I miss him terribly. Thank-you for so much My Little Prince. Rest In Peace.
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Painting is about trusting in the process. I find such a calm joy in the act of painting, of being in the muscle of the moment. It is meditation.
“Laura, through”, oil on panel, 24”x18”, private collection.
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It took over 150 hours to complete this painting, which I painted while living in The Yukon Territory. The warmth of the sun on the canvas kept me warm on those frigid days.
“Ghosts in the Sun”, oil, 36”x48”, private coll.
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New painting finished and I’m so happy with it! “The Ceromancer”, oil on canvas, 12”x24”, is a trade painting for one by the talented
@twschaller
‘s watercolour paintings. 🙏🏻💜
ceromancy-noun
ce•ro•man•cy
:divination from figures formed by melted wax in water
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This was a true challenge...I almost walked away from it but stuck with it....it was a mind-bender & patience-tester...”Refracted Portrait”, oil, 36”x24”, priv coll.
I will be starting a new 8”x10” painting tomorrow... 11-12:30 EST tomorrow to watch!
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@doctorow
Just finished! “The Paladin”, oil on panel, 18”x24”, available.
When you think you’re finished a painting/some part of your craft, spend a few more hours on it. It’s time we’ll spent.
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“Titanium is always on the way to becoming something else. It does not want to be itself, bc one of its shells of electrons…is not completely filled, so titanium constantly longs to mate with a material that can fill that shell.”~Laurence Gonzales
“Squares”, 11”x14”, priv Coll.
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Thankfully, as a painter, I will never retire. To stop creating is to stop breathing.
"July",oil, 48"x36",priv coll.
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I was honoured tonight to present the lovely
@RichardDawkins
with this portrait I painted of him
#art
&science
#NYC
http://t.co/6wQkDxMhse
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I came across this painting from the deep past the other day. I’d forgotten entirely about it! It was great to see “Laura, sheet” again. It’s fun to see what’s changed & what’s remained the same in after 18 years of painting.
“Laura, sheet”, oil, 48”x36”, priv collection.
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“I admire its purity. A survivor. Unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality.”
R.I.P. Sir Ian.
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Career highlight right here: the talented
@AnnaKendrick47
&
@blakelively
with my painting “From Pangea” behind them in
@ASimpleFavor
, in theatres now!
Thank-you forever
@paulfeig
! 🖤🔪🍸
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Experienced “Ocean at the End of the Lane” tonight with my
@joss
...a visceral delight..sensitively performed, cleverly designed, the score, all. An unforgettable proving ground for the heart and mind. Thank-you
@neilhimself
.
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This kind of art makes me very glad I do another kind.
A banana duct-taped to a wall was sold for $120,000 at Art Basel Miami
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Sometimes I look at a painting and wonder ‘how the heck did I do that?’
I’m then filled with a momentary fear that I’ll never be able to paint well again. And then you pick up a brush and start.
“Where you lay waiting”,oil, 24”x36”, private coll.
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Paint yourself at your weakest & you will be stronger as a result. "Self-Portrait, Bedhead",oil, priv coll.
http://t.co/QpavWLMW9r
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This is a portrait of love. I’ve never done anything like it. I’ve painted so many self portraits dealing with change & tumult over the years, that it’s a delight to paint peace & joy, finally. Thank-you my dear
@joss
, for everything. 🌹
Happy Valentines Day to you all! 💘
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A diptych from my days of struggling with anorexia. Painted when in the grip of depression and my eating disorder, my mother recovering slowly from a stroke and navigating the perennially complicated relationship I had with my father, I was a the lowest point of my life.
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“And across Route 424 to Route he recreation centre pool, and up the hill and I’m home.
Well don’t you see? I just figured it out.
If I take a sort of a dogleg to the southwest…I can swim home.”~”The Swimmer”
“The Naiad”, oil on panel, 36”x48”, private collection.
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All the paintings you DON’T paint are as important as the ones you DO paint.
There’s a reason you didn’t paint those ideas, and that decision makes your work stronger.
“Laura, stool”, oil on panel, 48”x36”, private collection.
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In a world of so much chaos and tumult, this is all I need; right here, right now, always. ♥️
In a time full of rage, fear, sadness, vague dread and crystalline self-doubt, I feel more gratitude than I know how to express. For one reason.
Happy Birthday
@Heather_Horton
. Happy every day with you to me.
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Painting engages all of one’s faculties, suspends time and is the closest path to peace that I know. “The Chimera”,oil on panel, 48”x48”, private coll, Whitehorse, Yukon.
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Just finished! “The Paladin”, oil on panel, 18”x24”, available through
@abbozzogallery
.
When you think you’re finished a painting/some part of your craft, spend a few more hours on it. It’s time we’ll spent.
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“To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.”~Mary Oliver •
“Self-portrait with Sasha”, oil, 18”x24”, priv coll.
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One of the sweetest souls I have ever had the pleasure to know and spend 12 years with. His passed in May. Forever loved. “Sasha” oil, 16”x12”, private collection.
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Certain paintings change your life….and this one did just that. As soon as I saw the movement of fabric and water flow I knew this painting would come to be.
May she sing her song forever.
“The Siren”, oil on panel, 48”x24”, private collection, LA.
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This was a fun exploration of painting with a limited, almost monochromatic palette. Always remember to mix your own blacks & greys if possible :-)
“Geese & Gull”, oil, 36”x48”, priv coll.
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Gifted this gorgeous
@twschaller
original watercolour to my love for Christmas....it is called “Deep Midwinter”. It is 30”x22”.
We are so excited to have one of Thomas’s originals in our home!
You are a master of your craft, Thomas!
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Great news! My portrait of
@RichardDawkins
is the author image 4 the British edition of "Brief Candle In The Dark":)
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In my father’s last years this was his room. He slept downstairs so that my mother could check on him.
The title may seem depressing, “Where you lay waiting”, but art is how we process our lives, by capturing a moment we want to hold on to. Oil, 24”x36”, priv coll.
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I will always be more interested in what cannot be seen that what can, in the questions more than answers.
“The Revenant”, oil on panel, 72”x36”, available via
@abbozzogallery
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@WestworldHBO
"Your mind is a walled garden; even death cannot touch the flowers blooming there..." Love the writing in Westworld!
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In 2003 I was in a 9-5 job that I disliked. I painted in the evenings because I knew that I wanted to be a full time painter & could be, if I worked hard.
I am thankful for that job bc it propelled me on to embrace my avocation as vocation.
“Margaret”, oil, 18”x18”, priv coll.
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The first water painting I ever did. I painted it, like the shower curtain paintings, to see if I could pull it off...create the illusion, love it enough to put it on a wall. I’m so glad I did took the leap.. 💜
“Hannah, Surfacing”, oil, 48”x72”, priv coll, Delaware, USA.
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“Until I thought of myself as the sea I used to separate good days from bad until I thought of myself as an ocean.
I used to slice times
I felt strong from when I felt weak until I imagined myself as the sea.
Calm and rocky, wild and soft, still and powerful and vast and more
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“The Gorgon girl looked out across the vast ocean, and believed she could be seen in return.”
~’Stone Blind’ by
@officialnhaynes
Three paintings and two photographs. All of them touch the pulse of those of us who feel the same draw.. We create because we must and we feel
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@pattonoswalt
@RidgeRooms
Beautiful work! Original artwork is the best investment! I did this piece last year..oil. “Ghosts in the Sun”.
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A new painting is on the easel!
This 16”x16” is very much in progress. I’m really enjoying the buoyancy of it…it’s untitled so far:) Oil on panel.
Please message me with any queries about this piece. 💙
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This painting changed my life. It combines three things I love: water, fabric and the figure. Motion...forever wending. And it is now in the collection of the person who became my person. ♥️
@joss
“The Siren”, oil on panel, 48”x24”, private coll.
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Certain paintings remind me of specific animals, mythological creatures, psychological concepts or archetypes (& occasionally DnD classes:-))
They often have an aquatic connection, which informs their titling.
E.g.“The Undine”, “The Lotus Eater” & “From Pangea”, all oil on panel.
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One day I’ll be able to do the former but until then I’m doing the latter: resting post spinal surgery to fix worsening spondylolisthesis and severe lumbar stenosis likely exacerbated by years of ballet/dance in my past. 🦴🦾🪡🩻🩰
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Few colour juxtapositions thrill me as much as red and blue. They are old and new blood; they are wood, water and rock all touched and shifting with their changing moods.
“David’s Studio, Sunset”, oil on panel, 36”x48”, priv coll, Toronto.
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Painting is not about speed. It isn’t about the dramatic arcs of paint. It’s about conviction. It’s about belief. It’s about the why-you’re-doing-it-in-the-first-place. The how comes after. The how is the fun part. The how will follow your heart. “Rebecca”,oil, priv coll.
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Painting, like everything, is as much as about having control as letting go of it. Finding the balance of controlling the direction of the eye via compositional choices, while still maintaining the élan of the moment.
“The Berry Picker, Greenspond”, oil, 60”x40”, priv coll
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“Life’s water flows from darkness. Search the darkness, don’t run from it. Night travellers are full of light, and you are too.”~Rumi
“David’s Studio, Sunset”, oil on canvas, 36”x48”, private collection.
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One of my favourite paintings ever, hanging in situ. I am so thankful to clients and friends for sharing photos like these. It’s a delight knowing my paintings are so well loved :-)
“The Berry Picker”, oil on canvas, 50”x35”, private collection, Delaware.
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Paint what fascinates you. Create what compels you, what makes you count the hours until you are at the easel again. “The Changeling”, oil, 18”x36”, available via Frederick Holmes & Co. in Seattle.
I’m streaming today working on the new painting from 11:30-1pm EST on
@Twitch
!
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I believe that stand-up comedy is one of the highest forms of art, and goodness gracious
@pattonoswalt
is as incredibly kind as he is talented at his craft!
I can’t wait to get to work in the painting studio tomorrow.
Laughter is such a fabulous catalyst :-)
Also shown is
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Secret painting part two: “Within these Walls” sold very quickly yesterday so here’s my other brand new painting..”Bedroom, Little Yellow House”, oil on panel, 12”x24”, is available via
@abbozzogallery
. Please contact the gallery or myself with any inquiries about this piece. 🖤
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New painting alert! I’m in the early stages of a new water painting:) It is 24”x12”, oil on canvas, and will be in my upcoming exhibition in 2023 (though available now). Untitled so far.
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In portraiture, always start with the eyes. If the eyes don’t work, it’s just wallpaper.
The stages of “Self-portrait, Shieldmaiden”, oil on panel, 8”x8”, private coll.
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Why paint complexity? Why enter the labyrinth of ripples, of sun & shadow? Because the knowledge gained by painting brings peace & understanding, & the visual effect of light and dark coalescing makes the countless hours well spent. “Cocoon”, oil on panel, 36”x24”, available.
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I paint water because it's mysterious, beautiful & deadly equally. In order to love it one must respect it."Arethusa",oil,24"x36",priv coll.
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New painting finally complete! "The Selkie",oil on panel, 60"x48".
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This was painted when I lived in the Yukon Territory...where outdoor swimming is rare due to cold temperatures...so I adapted!
“The Leviathan”, oil on canvas, 36”x48”, priv coll. I will be painting from 11:30-1pm on
@Twitch
today! Starting a new small painting for charity!
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I love painting the distortion of metal, showers, bath tubs...with their blank walls, their blue translucence...where we have the ability to moult away our yesterdays.. “Self-Portrait, attrition”, oil on panel, 20”x16”, priv coll.
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Don’t be afraid to paint your shadows. They are important to acknowledge.“Shadow Portrait"
http://t.co/AD8cQppnUf
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New painting--"Buoyancy", oil on canvas. Identity is precious and permeable.
@johncusack
http://t.co/fX6GPcdQQn
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Finally finished one of the toughest paintings I’ve ever done...this is a client commission simply titled ”Finn”, oil on panel, 36”x48”, private collection, Dundas, Ontario. 🖤
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I have found that painting water is the only way to hold onto it.
“The Diver”, oil on panel, 48”x24”, Private coll.🌊
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“The Chrysalis” oil on panel, 60”x40”, is now hanging in a new spot..it fits perfectly I think. :-)
This painting took an age to finish, and I love it to bits.
#insitu
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Multiple figures in a painting create too much noise. I prefer the stillness of solitude."Laura, Stool", priv coll.
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When you paint yourself, there’s nowhere to hide. When my mom had a stroke I painted this self portrait to show the cocooning in the wake of the terror at my her condition. It’s one of my favourite paintings ever. We are the sum of what we’ve conquered.
“July”, oil, 48”x36”.
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When people see my paintings I want them to want to step closer or further back, but to never stay in the same spot as when they first looked at it.
“Geese and gull”, oil on canvas, 36”x48”, priv coll, Philadelphia, PA.
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A painting from darker days...we are the sum of what we’ve conquered. This was painted while I struggled with anorexia & depression. The body is very forgiving...I’m thankful to be much healthier now. 🙏🏻❤️😊 “Self-Portrait”, oil, priv coll.
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I’m so excited that two of my paintings will be aboard this mission! The Peregrine Lunar Lander will set down on the moon and serve as a time capsule of sorts, including thousands of works of art which will be on board via nano technology :-)
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When is a painting complete? In my experience, putting down the brush & no longer being compelled to pick it up immediately is a good test...I also work two more hours on a painting after I think it’s done. Then all doubt is removed. “Woman in Shower”, oil, 48”x36”, priv coll.
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Varnishing “The Porpoise” before she heads off to her forever home...this is a detail...full painting is 48”x24”, oil on panel.
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My mum’s dementia has, thankfully, progressed quite slowly over the years.
I cherish each time she says “I love you.” Full sentences are more infrequent these days, but the love for her grows evermore.
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Give me a storm to paint over any sunny day. Storms have teeth.
“Storm over Wesleyville”, oil on canvas, 36”x24”, private collection.
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Yesterday was my fella’s birthday...I gave him a “Lover’s Eye”. Popular in the late 1700’s the eye of the subject would be painted on a piece of jewellery & given to their beloved. I painted my eye on the back of my grandfather’s pocket watch :) Happy bday my love, my
@joss
. ♥️
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